Hello, and welcome to the Anchor.
Faith. Message podcast enjoyed this
message. Well you excited to be in the
house of the Lord. Amen.
Well I want to talk about a subject that you know is in the
kingdom of God. But I think it's very important
that we kind of discussed it because you know, a lot of
things are being said. Said, it's amazing.
How much that, how many things are happening in parallel to
God's kingdom in the world? You know, the good news is here
at anchor in a church. We've done a really good job of
ripping, religion off to recognize that we're in a
kingdom. The Bible's by the king is
Kingdom in his role Offspring, and by All rights.
A kingdom is a government. And so, the King has dominion
over his territory and aren't you?
Glad you're part of his territory, aren't you?
Glad that he purchased you with his blood, aren't you?
Glad you've been bought and paid for Or aren't you glad the Holy
Ghost lives in you and bears witness with your spirit.
You're a child of God. Amen.
And so I love being in the congregation's that know a bit
about this because I get feedback every time I go preach
the kingdom and they don't know it as well.
It gets really quiet and I realized that because, you know,
you start filtering through all that you think you know, about
God on it to realize, there's so much.
I still need to know about him and ways that we can operate.
Wait, but I want to talk to you about the pathway to
citizenship. Now, I'm not trying to be
political, so please don't go there.
But at the end of the day, there are a lot of parallels that are
happening in the world, because the world is just trying to find
the Kingdom. At the end of the day, Heaven is
not the place that we're trying to attain to, we're trying to
attain to the kingdom because wherever the kingdom is, that's
where we want to be. Again, we do not want to drop
our thinking and I say drop, I mean lower it to where, all we
are concerned about is where we go.
When we die. Die.
Because every religion has that concern and Christ is bigger
than any religion. In fact, if you actually read
scripture and take the time and don't take it through just a
traditional lens, you'll come to discover that God came down all
the time that in the very beginning.
When God, created the heavens and the Earth and he made, Man
In His Image, according to his likeness and gave him Dominion.
He would come down and walk with him in the cool of the day.
He didn't say, Adam come up here.
I can't wait till you come up here.
I mean, Earth's realm was without sin, Heavens realm was
without sin and God could come and have no issue there.
There was great relationship. Adam wasn't trying to get
somewhere where God was because God was with him.
We know that when Jesus was born hit one of his name's was called
Immanuel, which is what God With Us, right?
We know before that when God made a covenant with Abraham,
Abraham baguette gave birth to Isaac.
Isaac gave birth to Jacob. Jacob.
You know, had 12 sons and their the twat Trot.
Twelve Tribes of Israel because Jacob wrestled with the Lord and
had a name change of Israel. We know that God told Moses,
when he delivered the people out of Egypt to build a tabernacle
why, so he could come down and be with a people.
So, there are so many examples when they built one Solomon.
Built that Temple. The Lord came down, Jesus Is God
With Us and the good news about what Jesus, Jesus says, now is
to your advantage that I go, so that he may not that you may
leave It's to your advantage that I go so that you can leave
to know. So your man is that I go so that
he may come, so that he'll be with you, right?
Then he'll be with you. Amen, it's amazing.
How many people liked how I just can't wait to be with god?
What have you checked inside? I mean, the third person of the
godhead lives in The Believer, I'm 10, we need get revelation
of that good. Let me tell you what the Holy
Ghost would say on a Sunday, I want to go to church.
I want to go to assemble with my brothers and sisters.
Let me tell you what he say on Wednesday night of the place at
your side. I want to go to church.
I want to be with the people that I said, well you let me
tell you what do you want to do with the vision of the church
that he's accentuate? Anything they're doing the Holy
Ghost, be like, let's go do something.
Let's go be a light to the world.
Not to your house. Amen.
I'm glad some of y'all were not Jesus because you would have
never made it to the Cross. You had a hard enough time with
the food that you didn't have to eat.
You'd have been struggling with the way people talked about you
and you just stay home. Amen.
Because I mean, if someone would have slapped it had to be in it.
You know, I'm done with this church stuff.
I'm glad Jesus bore our Stripes that he was beaten so bad, you
couldn't tell. He was a man and said, I won't
let nothing stop me from fulfilling the purpose that my
Father, sent me, amen. The third person of the godhead
is in you. Hallelujah.
I have come to find out the
closer we get to the end, the boulder.
We're going to have to be, I mean even in the church
preaching, amen. Because the enemy, there's a
great deception that is already in the Earth.
In fact, the Bible tells us in the last of the last days,
they'll be seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
One of the greatest things that happen on the planet is the
deception of many. So if you're not gearing up this
relationship, you actually have and growing in it and learning
how to be led by the spirit of God.
Even though you're a child of God, you will run the risk, not
just run it, it is emphatic, that it will happen to you.
Because James Let the church know he said, I listened
Brethren, right? James chapter 1.
He said I listen, don't get all jacked up when you enter the
trials and tribulations, right? Be of good cheer, but he goes on
in that same chapter he says now you need to be doers of the word
and not hearers only deceiving themselves.
There are many that are in congregations that are in
places. They call church.
And I'm not even saying that's not Church.
Some probably, Aren't. But some are, and they're just
hearing the word but they're not acting on it.
Living it out and they are under the great deception, a taught
by, but by All rights, they are children of God.
Amen. But not here, say not here, say
not with me. I will hear the voice of God and
I will obey it. Amen.
There's nothing that we should do.
More than obey the voice of God. God's always coming down?
Always coming down, always coming down, guess what?
He's going to come down again when he catches us up.
Now, again that event is just an event, it's not forever because
if you read the book, you'll find that will be caught up
together with him in the air. It actually says Okay, in the
air. Right.
And then he'll return after that, tribulation period with
the Saints. So when we're caught up, you're
coming back. Coming back to the planet and
you're going to reign with him for a thousand years and then I
just have to surmise at the end. You know, when they judge the
dead and that the great white Throne judgment and they throw
all those into the Lake of Fire of those who chose to, not
accept Jesus as Lord. Throw Satan in there, himself
throw death and the grave in there as well.
Then it says, he'll burn the heavens and the Earth.
And I just believe is probably going to be like, Shadrach
Meshach and Abednego, we're going to be Right here on the
planet, it's gonna go up in Flames.
We're gonna be just watching it burn.
Come on, we'll be in our glorified bodies.
Be right there in the midst of the fire, watch it all burn, and
then we have a new Heaven and a new Earth, and then we'll just
watch as the New Jerusalem comes down out of Heaven.
Shouts come down out of heaven and hits the planet Glory that
God. And all of a sudden, the gate to
be opened and the King will be in the air and the father will
come down and Jesus will take His authority and hand it back
over to Daddy God the father. And he'll say now, I'll hold
this already on the planet and never be lost again glory to God
where what a great day to be a men but he's in us now the
greater one is in us now. See we talk about the United
States, you know like you know there's this great pride of
nation, right? You know many the cultures and
Nations on the earth when you go to the Olympics or stuff there's
like a great what you would consider a pride or this
allegiance to their Nation. They have this inside them.
They want to represent their country.
How much more should we represent?
The kingdom of God? Amen.
And here's the thing, although the kingdom of God is made
available for everyone. There's only a select few to get
in. It's a very prestigious nation.
In fact, our Chancellor Chancellor, Brian he was born in
Germany, okay? His father was deployed over
there and not that there was an issue.
He was just at a base over there in Germany, and that's when he
was born. And so, you know, they came back
to the states, right? And so years later, you know,
really within the last 10 years, I think it was he Ended up
contacting Germany and and asked about, you know, receiving
citizenship since he was born there he thought I would like to
hold dual citizenship and so when he you know, contacted
them, they lasted him and said we don't give away citizenship
like you Americans do. We value our citizenship.
Wow, make almost get you offended, right?
There's like it's not that easy for you to become a citizen just
because you were born in our country, you are actually on a
US base and we just don't give it out like you do.
So in essence, he won't receive dual citizenship.
Even though he is born in that Nation, are you hearing what I'm
saying? Well, you understand God has a
way into his Amen. I said he has a way into his and
we need to learn that because right now in our world, you
know, people, you know, don't understand that there's
boundaries associated with Nations.
And, and however, the world operates really doesn't matter.
In one sense, I don't care, whether it's open borders, are
closed, borders, be honest with you.
It doesn't really matter to me in one sense.
Okay, what I'm saying is that there is a kingdom side though.
So whether the us or Germany or Thailand, you know, whatever
Nation doesn't really matter. Okay.
Whatever their policy is in a pathway to citizenship.
There is a pathway to citizenship.
Up in the kingdom of God. And so we need to look at this
again because at the end of the day, anyone going from a nation
to a nation. Is going for this purpose and
opportunity to have a better life.
I mean, how do you fault that? Right now, I'm not going to say
that there aren't people coming from Nations into another Nation
for the sake of trying to destroy it.
Right, we know that that would be truth as well because the
reality is they're not actually wanting to have an allegiance to
their new nation. What they want to do is want to
infiltrate it so that the nation they came from can dominate it
or get in, because a lot of times, you know, the best way to
take something down as from the inside, right?
It's from the inside, but we'll see some of this in scripture,
anyway, all right, so in John 3:3, Look what Jesus says, Jesus
answered and said to them to him that, This is Nicodemus, is it
about a religious leader? Okay, it's about 2:30. 3:00 a.m.
in the morning, okay? This guy came out to him in
private because obviously he didn't want the rest of the
Pharisees to know that he was talking to Jesus.
And so he's asking him some questions about the kingdom or
you know, that he's from God, and Jesus just puts it out right
here. He says, truly, truly, I say to
you unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
So the first thing we have to realize that, right?
Here. And this goes in line with
Ephesians when it says it's not of any Works, lest any man
should boast meaning. We can't work our way, pay our
way for a citizenship in the Kingdom of God.
In order to be a true citizen of God's kingdom, you must be born
of the Kingdom. Born, which tells us that you
can't come to church with Mom and mom, get you in.
You can't hang out in the church and act like you're part of its
Nation. Unless you're a born of it.
Are you hearing what I'm saying using some terms today?
Again don't get offended because there's legal and illegal.
And many of you are illegal half the time when it comes to
driving, you illegally drive over the speed limit.
So don't get all caught up with the word illegal, okay?
Illegal just means not lawful in The process of something, and
I'm going to talk like this. I'm not going to be, I'm not
gonna backtrack. Over your sensitivity weatherall
honor here. Okay, so let's use our brain.
Instead of just, you know, taking a bunch of talking points
off of Twitter, CNN, MSNBC Fox News or whatever, okay?
Okay. So if you drive over the speed
limit by All rights, you are an illegal.
Okay? So there are legal ways to
access Nations and illegal ways to access Nations and illegal
way. For you to think that you can
access the kingdom of God, is that you can work in a way that
God is impressed with your goodness.
But the reality is, you're not in.
Here's the thing. Again, you can be in the church.
Come to every service but by All rights.
You are an illegal alien in the congregation.
Which means you are forfeiting some rights because you don't
have them. because you're not of the nation even though you're
around those who are period. And again, someone who's legally
in the Kingdom can bless you has rights can get things for you.
But at the end of the day, Unless you're born again, you're
not a citizen. I said, you're not a citizen.
You understand. Someone can come to this nation
or any Nation for that matter. Unlawfully, right.
And still get help. But that doesn't make you a
citizen. You can receive the benefits
actually of that nation and still not be a part of it.
Right? And this happens day in and day
out in churches, where people are receiving benefits from the
kingdom of God, like food, clothing, Healthcare.
Don't worry about what you're going to eat, what you gonna
drink or what you going, where right?
They can come to the church. His nation and those citizens
are very benevolent and they're like we you need some clothes.
Here, you need to eat here. You're sick.
Let me lay hands on you and administer, the healthcare
system of the kingdom, and then they receive healing.
Write a bill needs to be paid. We pay the bill but at the end
of the day, they're still not a citizen.
Still not a citizen and they can jump from one Embassy to the
next one congregation to the next and and receive out of that
Nation. Yet in the end, if they do not
repent, Then they'll find out and they know honestly, they
will be in the Kingdom that they are part of which is the kingdom
of darkness, right? Okay, so Jesus says, unless
you're born again, you cannot enter the kingdom of God.
So, this nation is only by Birthright, which in light, here
we go, in like manner, then in the United States, than if the
United States were the kingdom of God, then Essence, unless you
were born in this, those 50 states, you're not getting in
Period. Okay.
Okay, I'll go over here. I'm just trying to give you a
natural sense. If you were not born here, you
cannot get in Period. There is not another pathway.
See what God. There is another pathway.
You're either born in it or you're not.
You're either born in it. Are you not now in the natural?
You're only born once. Which means if you weren't on
the soil, then you would have the mentality would be according
to God, is you never have an opportunity.
You would never be a US citizen. If that was their policy.
We only have citizens that are born here.
I'm not saying there aren't Nations kind of like that.
I'll probably do a little bit of research.
Now that said that because I got one that popped up in my spirit
and I'll study that out and maybe talk to you next week
about it because again, you're like, wow, how close minded is
that? Well, I mean, if that's what
they did natural but God's not close-minded.
God says I can get you born again.
But it's still, the only way. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So let's go on because Jesus was very direct.
Right. Very direct and how to become a
citizen of his kingdom in John 14:6.
Jesus said to them, I am the not, I am a I am thee.
Now, I am a Well I mean do you really believe that all those
people that are saying they love God and just doing a little bit
different than the way you do. It aren't getting in yes yes
absolutely without a doubt. No Doubt.
Period. Now why does this offend people
because people want to do it their way instead of saying
cheese, the creator of Heaven and Earth made it like super
simple. He got rid of all of the
confusion. He did he made a such an
emphatic statement that I don't have to wonder whether Islam is
it or whether Buddhism is it or whether you know Hinduism is Is
it or whether humanism is it, or whether atheism is it?
I mean, that's like someone giving you a test and circling
the answer And you still Mark something else.
I mean seriously you get a multiple choice, right?
And he fills in every bubble. The only way you blow that scan
is you go and fill in your own bubbles.
Now, you got more than one answer and now all of a sudden
it kicks you out or causes it to wrong even though the right
answer is already there, all you got to do is sign your name all.
You had to assign a name to the test and turn it in but you want
to sign your name and it's a I don't know if I agree with that.
Well I mean wow. I mean seriously, you're like
wow. Siri you would actually blow a
hundred percent perfect task just so you think you're better.
Well, some may say that that's not it.
I don't care what some may say. He's eternal.
Oh Hallelujah. And again anytime someone pushes
you in this direction, oh like get a hottie about that, you
know, like I can't I can't believe that.
You think some human would be smarter than God.
And at the end of they all you're doing is asking me to
believe someone, you know or some book you read or somebody
else's word over the word of God.
That's all you're doing. You're asking me to do the same
thing I'm doing but you're telling me to put my trust in
some individuals name or somebody else's.
Thought instead of God's thoughts.
Why don't you go to his thoughts?
Right? I mean, when they call you
close-minded, just say no Mom has been wide open to Eternity.
Yeah. I mean my God made it so simple.
I mean you still complicating it.
Well what do you think about what songs so said who was so
on? So I mean half the time you
ain't even met so-and-so. And you're like, believing
so-so. It's simple.
Jesus said I am the way the again.
Well, do you think the stuff going on in this religion?
Jesus says I'm not a truth. I'm the truth.
Now, most in fact, basically, all other religions, even a
theater even being an atheist, has some truth, they've grabbed
something from God and then created their own thing because
that's how they can try to reinforce the lie.
I mean in that what the devil did has got not said you can't
eat from any tree of the garden and Eve says you stand
corrected. God said I can eat from any tree
of the garden but of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
You shall not eat for the day. I eat.
I'll die. There's the truth, then he goes,
you ain't going down. He just needed a truth to
reinforce his law. And all these other religions
are trying to grab some portion of God because you know what are
they coming? Well how do you know your books
right? You know I mean they wrote that
book over. What was already going on?
No they did again. You're trying to get me to
believe that somebody else that our book was barred from someone
else's story. But here's the thing, the author
of the book actually is inside me.
That's what's different. I actually have the author of
the book on the inside of his skin suit.
It's, you can't see talking to my spirit, man, saying, that's a
lie. I was there.
When we pinned the page, I was in the cell with Paul when it
was happening and his sweat was coming down at 3:00 in the
morning. I was there when God spoke and
it happened, I was there when a sorry liar wrote that other book
and I tried to let them no through this individual go that
direction. He was there and he's in me.
Hallelujah. Now, I'm not confident in me.
I'm confident in him, because he actually talks to me right
again. I hear your voice.
I hear his voice. So, again, what are you doing?
You're trying to make me decide that I should listen to your
voice more than the voice. I literally here on the inside.
See, this is how you can talk to the World when they come at you
on these things like okay, so all you want me to do is hear
your words and not the words I hear from the Holy Ghost on the
inside of me. You decide.
Do I follow man or God? I mean, this has been in
scripture before I just read it with Peter here at Acts chapter
5 and 6 this morning man and Peter was like you decide
whether we obey, man, or obey, God, you pass a law.
Telling me, I can't preach in the name of Jesus, I'm gonna
tell you right now. I got a kingdom that supersedes
yours, and you may kill me on the Earth, but you can't kill
me. Because I'll come back to judge
you. I'm going to do what God says he
hear me. So he said, I am the way.
I am the truth, I am the life again.
These are these statements. These are not a statements.
It would be different if he just said I'm away.
I'm a truth. I'm alive.
I'm like, okay, well he's won. No different than when we go to
India that point, you know, just add Jesus to the rest of the
gods. They have.
How many guys are they have over there?
Miss Amina. Thousands right, thousands,
thousands. Now they have a few that are
like top-tier, you know, their top tier.
I don't know why their top tier but they are, but the rest of,
you know, there's just everywhere.
And so when I have to, when I preach the kingdom of God there,
I'm like, you have to denounce every other God.
Don't you ask Jesus to the list of the, you can't add him.
You denounced the rest, but see, that's what citizenship is
citizenship, is, is I denounce the The nation, I was in.
I have no more allegiance to it and my full Allegiance now is to
the nation that I'm born of and I only fight for that Nation.
I only support that Nation. It's my only thought process.
He said, I am the way, the truth and the life.
No one comes to the father, but through me, this Pathway to
citizenship in Matthew 7:13-14, the passion.
Elation says this come to God through the narrow gate.
What kind of gate is? It narrow gate because wide say
wide wide is the gate that leads to destruction.
Now again we want big opportunities, we want it to be
really big, right? Oh that's a big gate.
I can go in there. Look at all these people, the
magenta now, look at this. Now wide is the gate that leads
to destruction. Nearly everyone chooses that
crowded road. So that tells me the T.
Is going in a direction. And if you find that your
thinking and your lifestyle is in with the majority, you might
be on the wrong road. I mean, that is enough nugget
for me when I'm starting to think and I'm hearing stuff
going on the world and how you should respond to situations.
If the whole planet is in lockstep, I'm thinking that
might not be the right Road. That just might not be the right
Road. Because nearly everybody, this
is sad. This is actually a very
depressing scripture. Nearly everyone chooses that
crowded Road, the narrow gate and the difficult way leads to
lie eternal life. So if you even find it, I've
come to realize, there's not going to be an overcrowding in
the kingdom of God. But there will be an
overcrowding. In the Lake of Fire.
Now, do I think it'll be crowded like they're going to be bumping
into each other? No but there would be a lot.
It is by their choice. You know why it's difficult to
do the narrow gate? Because it's just easy to live,
according to your flesh and follow the, and be led by your
side. It's just easy to respond the
way everyone else does. It's just as easy.
To get mad and angry like everybody else to be tempted and
do the Temptation like everybody else.
It's easy to send, it's easy to send.
It's like he's evil, right? That was, there was a time that
was you're like super easy for you, you know?
Hopefully it's difficult for you at this juncture.
Hopefully is like a very difficult task, you know, you're
like I don't want to do that. There's the time, it was easy
and it's easy. The world just follows it Ron's.
They do what they give to their passions.
They give to their emotions, they give to the way they feel,
they give to the This abs and flows of everything.
They're carried around by everything, they're just in
full-blown deception, and they're all being led to
slaughter. Yep.
But there are few that all of a sudden, see this paths kind of
like this stripe down here at down here on the floor.
If you haven't been up here, you ought to come up after
servicing. You see it, I mean, it's pretty
easy to see that line. and so if I knew life was on the line, If
life is on the line. Now be easy to step off this
line. Be very easy.
Because there's way more carpet Square somewhere else.
But this is life, life is on the line.
Here's the thing I know where it's going.
I mean I can see it, it's pretty clear.
And this is God, God is a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our
path. He makes the Crooked places
straight. I mean, God Is So makes it so
easy for Humanity. This is why I want you when
people stand before him one day, all are without excuse.
You're not going to complicate it, you'll have no case. because
here's the thing that I know is the most crushing in the
Judgment of Jesus. Is that God himself talks to you
about what's truth and who is truth?
And what is the way? And he'll open up your spirit
man, on that day, where, you know, that you heard God's voice
and you said no. Pathway to citizenship, we call
it an Arab. I call it easy.
And the context was difficult, though, the difficulty, is you
laying down your flesh, the difficulty is you laying down
your own will the difficulty, is you want to do it your way?
Said the majority of Christian thinking specially in the United
States today is that I'm just asking Jesus to come into my
heart and save me because it's about a after life.
After I'm in this suit existence, it has nothing to do
with now. So, how I live today in his
kingdom is he relevant? But that's not what the Bible
teaches. It's not what the Bible teaches
that all, there's a pathway to citizenship, John chapter 10
verse 1. Says, this truly truly, I say to
you, he who does not enter by the door, into the fault of the
sheep. But climbs up some other way, he
is a thief and a robber robber. What he's saying here is that if
you're trying to get into the church, another way, You're a
thief and you're trying to steal something that's his and it's
just not going to work. You're not a citizen's what I'm
saying. You can't get another way he
said, unless you do the door, this is who you are.
You jump down to verse 7. Jesus said to them again, truly
truly, I say to you. Ah, I am the door of the sheep.
Jesus is the door. No man comes to the father, but
through me, unless a man is born again, he can't even see the
Kingdom, right? Okay.
And this is a narrow gate. Why is it narrower?
Because it's Jesus. I said it's Jesus mama.
Can't get you in. Daddy, can't get you in grandma.
Can't get you in on to can get you in.
Doesn't happen. Nobody else can get you in
pasture. Can't get you in profit.
Can't prophesy you.
You can't pay money to the church to get you in and keep
you out of purgatory. Can't do it.
No, you gotta go through Jesus, do a confession of faith that he
came and he died on the cross and Rose from the grave and then
he saved your life from Eternal damnation and delivered.
You out of a nation that had a tyrannical ruler and you call
Jesus Lord, which is an allegiance to the one who is
supreme and authority and Allegiance.
I mean, how do you deny your nation?
I mean, I was in the Army. How do I deny My nation if it
calls me to go. How do you deny that?
Well, I tell you. Deny you say I ain't going for
these other reason and they throw you in jail and discharge
you. But I voluntarily said I will
defend the nation, so when the nation calls you put aside
everything else. Because no Nation will stay well
defended if their citizens are willing to fight.
We are citizens of the kingdom of heaven and we have a fight,
it's called the fight of faith and your nation calls you to
fight the good fight of Faith. But what we want is citizenship
after we leave and no fight while we're down here.
Your nation calls come to prayer.
Oh shut up. Come to prayer and intercede on
behalf of those stuck in another Nation.
Like well I you know I got to stay home with my kids man you
just ask him way too much of me. Oh yes, quiet.
Now we understand citizenship. I mean if you pick and choose,
it's a religion to you. That's what every other religion
picking and choosing how they want to believe God.
But when you're a citizen and you're connected with a vision,
that's moving for God and with God, then you'll hear the call
and you'll step up to the plate. Hallelujah.
Glory to God, do some self-evaluation.
Amen. And honestly, man, I'm just
gonna be honest with you, man. Life ain't near as Citizens
right now in this particular Nation today, it ain't near as
bad as some other nations for people to stay citizens and that
in the kingdom of God. I felt like we could help him a
whole lot more. I there's no reason why God
hasn't deployed us here so that our intercession helps those
that are in the other nations being more oppressed.
But you got to answer the call fight the good fight of Faith.
Got to answer the call. Me really what calling your
lives bigger than that? I mean, really, what could you
possibly be doing greater than the call of God in your life?
And at the end of the day, God is not calling all of us to come
here every day 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
That's not he wants us to influence the world but in 168
hours a day a a week I mean not a day that sometimes I feel like
I need that but 168 hours in a week.
Any time the Call Comes you should say my allegiance is to
my nation. As a citizen.
I need to come fight the good fight of Faith.
Hallelujah. Alright verse 9, the 10th
chapter of John, amen. Just like somebody say, this is
really good. Say it in faith, even if you
don't believe it, just say it. Jesus said, I am the door.
If anyone enters through me, he will be what.
So the implication is, if your fence jumper, you're not You're
not saved. Got to enter in through the
door. He said he will be saved and
will go in and out and find pasture.
Well, you'll get the benefits of the Kingdom.
This word door here, the Thayer's defines door here, and
John 10:9, the door of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Likened to a palace denotes the condition, which must be
compiled with in order to be received into the kingdom of
God. It's the only way you're going
to get in. Jesus is the pathway to
citizenship if you want to be a part of the kingdom of God.
His Nation God's kingdom. Then you must enter in through
the door. You must believe in your heart
that Jesus Christ came born of a virgin that he died on a cross
as a substitute for our Rebellion, our transgression,
our sin that's just our Disobedience to the crown of God
to his throne is our way of doing life, which is in
Rebellion to His way of doing it and he is life.
So the minute we don't do it his way.
We're in death, it's called separation.
We're separated from the kingdom.
And we were stuck in a domain, a kingdom of darkness where that
ruler dominated Our Lives destroyed.
Our lives only had one agenda for our lives to kill steal and
destroy, leave us a mess, not only us but our seed for four
five. Ten Generations, why offering a
wide way Way. Of what seemed like hope, peace.
And all it ins is death. Right.
But Jesus is the only way in and so he's the door.
He said, I am the door. If you'll confess me as your
lord supreme authority, you'll be saved.
I'll pull you out of that Kingdom.
We see this in Colossians chapter 1, starting in verse 13,
to verse 14. It says, for he, that's Jesus
rescued us from the domain of Darkness.
Us the authority and power. The one who had you, Chained and
Shackled. You know, everybody likes those
songs about my chains are gone. Well, they may be gone off your
spirit but some of you still Shackled in your mind's, in your
behavior because you're not acting like a citizen.
You're acting like a religious person that just wants to go to
heaven when you die. So you got to get the shackles
off your brain off, you thinking off your mind and off your body.
So do you don't have addictions are your body's telling you what
to do? I made this statement in and at
Transformation Church, I said you going to let a plant talk to
you have dominion over you. You gonna let tobacco tell you
what to do? And today, you know, the
marijuana plant is dominating. I mean, have you seen them pop
up all over ours. Now I hear you because some
people like my pastor Earle. I mean people need that because
you know, they have some real serious ailments in issues and
it helps them you know what and maybe it does but God never
wants you addicted to a plan. He only wants you to have one
dependency and that's the blood of Jesus.
So rise out of the plant life into the blood life.
That's what I'm saying. Come out of the plant life and
get into the blood life of Jesus caused by his stripes.
Not only, will he not mask your pain but he will deliver you
from the pain. Because smoking you dope and
drinking your alcohol and getting your body numb to the
pain doesn't change. The pain.
In fact, many of you are getting worse and parts of your body
because they've gone so numb, that you're doing stuff that you
can't do, but you can't feel it until it wears off.
But Jesus a heal your body. I said he'll heal your body.
Amen. Don't be it.
Don't know Phil a shame because the Healthcare System of your
kingdom does. More than put us.
Put a mask over something, but it actually cures you listen in
the kingdom of God. There's a thing called The Cure.
You can be cured of cancer. Not put in remission.
You can be cured of epilepsy of of muscular sir.
Yes, you can be cured. Of HIV.
You can be cured of covid turd. There's no disease.
The blood doesn't take care of and this is a right to the
citizen in the Kingdom. I mean, one of the biggest
challenges in most Nations today is offering the benefit to their
citizens called Healthcare. Amen.
Now listen wherever you're at, just grow.
That's what I'm saying. I mean there was a time in my
life that every Thanksgiving man, I would come down with the
flu like all the time and I was skinny guy, right?
And I wanted to eat and get bigger and that's when you had a
bountiful amount that you could write, get a couple extra ounces
and so, but I couldn't eat during us like how it's like
cyclical man every year. Then I found, About healing.
I thought why am I letting flu show up every flu season like it
has a right to me. So I had to change my thinking.
What does that mean? That I've never taken NyQuil
before. Sure, I've taken NyQuil.
Does that mean that I've never put a plop plop fizz fizz?
Oh, what a relief, it is sure I've done but I didn't rely on
it. There came a point where I'm
like, hey let me fight this here and I've found that I've won me
and Milan of battles with that that I didn't have to go to
apply. I'll go to a plop, plop fizz
tomorrow if necessary but I won't stay in a plop.
Plop, fizz fizz life? No sir no I'll get in the word
and rise up. I'll say Lord changed my
thinking cause my faith to increase.
Let me try Just you at your word, you can raise the dead.
My gosh, you can heal my body. This is easy for you.
So help me believe because you know, Smith Wigglesworth who had
multiple miracles happen in his ministry.
He said, one of the greatest downfalls of the miraculous of
healing in the church, body will be the advancement of Medical
Science because people will put more trust and what a doctor
says about something in a pill that you didn't even see
process. You have no idea half of us
can't even read the stuff it is. I mean the words are so big.
So, what am I a moxa? Millen.
What's a mock mock? Sicilian?
Who can't pronounce it, right? I mean, it's like, what even is
that? You can't even pronounce.
All you want to do is no take one three times a day and you'll
walk around. How you doing.
Well, I'm taking my I'm not against your medicine, I'm just
saying if you'll be dedicated there all you got to do a shift
it over to the word because the word does good like a medicine
and eventually got to be like you know what?
It's fine. You were there and that helped
you along but ultimately less arrived.
Let's go on and get to another place.
Where more than often That belief is an analyst faith comes
by hearing. So here's the thing just
because, you know, it don't mean, you're going to have the
dose of it, okay? Yes.
Thank you. Lord, nobody takes a
prescription takes one starts feeling better off the one in
never finishes, the rest. Now, many of you do take a few
days, start feeling better and didn't finish it.
That's true. And then, sometimes it comes
back and like, man, I should have finished a prescription.
Same thing. You got healed once with the
Lord, but then you're not in scripture anymore.
I mean you want to come down someone lay hands on you to
administer healing but then you don't faith comes by hearing not
from having heard so you're not going to maintain Health.
Some of y'all that have gone on, you know, I don't want to say a
diet because I mean diets, a negative term, even though
that's what it is. You you change the way you ate.
So that means then your body perform based upon different
eating habits. and the only way you're going to maintain that is
if you don't go back to the old habit, Right.
Oh Hallelujah and man when you get your body pure you go back
to some stuff that's like Ms hurts.
I had a doughnut and trans formation Church.
Yeah. Seminole Texas.
They had these little donut shops becomes desperate.
Tom's people, it's desperate times.
I mean, I don't even think they had a McDonald's know, they
didn't even have a McDonald's people.
Yeah, desperate times. So I was looking for a cup of
coffee, went to the donut shop. That's why I went That's true.
That's true statement. And I went and pulled the coffee
self-serve off the bun, machinist at the cafe, and a
little red container of Folgers was behind it.
Desperate times people desperate times.
At this juncture, if I'm going to drink this kerosene, I've
gonna have to get something else in me to help offset this thing.
So but do not win and I felt it. It's like I felt the sugar
running through my veins man, it was crazy bills like right?
It's horrible. You're like why do you do it to
yourself? There was nothing else to eat.
People. There was nothing else to eat.
Oh my gosh. But hey, the Lord He's alright.
It's alright. I've passed it all now.
I've passed it all. We're moving on to greener
pastures, Hallelujah. I mean, it didn't kill me, but I
felt it's what I'm saying. Amen.
All right, y'all. All right.
Okay, let's keep going. Colossians chapter 1, verse 12
to 14 says this, for he rescued us from the domain of darkness
and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son.
In whom we have Redemption, the forgiveness of sin.
See that's when you become Come a citizen.
See his ceremonies pretty amazing, too.
Because when he threw the pathway of citizenship, when you
acknowledge Jesus is Lord through his death, burial and
Resurrection through his death on the cross and Resurrection
from the grave, by the power of the Holy Ghost and he's Lord of
your life. And you say, forgive me of all
my wrongdoing, I acknowledge is the Lord of my life.
When you do that, then the Lord has a celebration in heaven.
A ceremony takes place, right? That all the The angels in
heaven, Rejoice over the one. Citizen.
Now The Sinner who's come home. This rebellious treasonist, this
in another nation that was an enemy to God.
Has now been turned and has become a citizen of the kingdom
of God, he transfer you out of the domain of Darkness where
into the kingdom of his beloved Son, when does that occur, that
does not occur in heaven, that occurs immediately in the realm
of the spirit, which Means then you are to denounce.
See when we say repent, which means change your thinking, but
many times through the religious side they choose it.
As a 180 you are determined away from it.
Really, you are now saying I am siding with the party of Jesus,
one translation meets me that repent, me side with my party in
SS. I'm leaving this nation called,
it's no good. This is why I don't fault.
People coming from other nations that are looking for a better
nation and they want to denounce it and come over.
Cause here's the problem us that are born in it, we're denouncing
it and wanting the benefits of it.
How could someone do that? Well, Christians do it all the
time. They get born again and then
denounced. Through their lifestyle and
behavior. They don't even know their own
Nation. For people to become citizens of
the United States, they have to actually study our history.
We don't even care about our history.
And then we make demands of our leaders.
And say we want to be like another Nation.
I mean, I don't work in the Kingdom.
You're not gonna say Jesus. Now, listen, this is all great,
right? I'm glad you saved me.
That's awesome. I don't want to have to burn
forever. This is nice.
But here's the thing, I mean, you know, now there are some
things in my other Nation. I was really kind of cool.
Okay. Okay.
You don't want to go there as fine.
How do I know it's been in the church because there was a time
in our nation that you were only known as a US citizen or an
American period. That's all that mattered.
But something's happened that all of a sudden we started
reaching back and we started having another association with
the word America. African American Irish American,
Hispanic American Asian American.
Like all of a sudden, we wanted to go back and we want this
culture to somehow manifest here.
How do I know it's in the church?
But we say this. Well, I'm just a sinner saved by
grace. I'm a sinner Christian.
Instead of being a Christian. Or believer.
I'm a I'm I send like you but I'm got Grace.
Okay, you put your reaching back because you have lost your
Allegiance, only to the citizenship that you're in.
You're longing for something your flesh wants.
But there's nothing ever offered in that nation that you can't
have it in this nation with freedom, you're not going to
change the King on the policies. Of when you can have sexual
relationship, you're not changing it.
The king's not going to say. Yeah, I get it.
You love them. I mean we don't need to get
married. I mean it's okay.
I mean as long as you love me that's all that matters.
Kings never gonna say that. He's going to save the citizens
and my nation are only having sexual relation, when the man
and the woman come together as one, then it's permitted.
Everything else. Everything else?
Is unlawful as a citizen. It's not of our nation.
Are you do is read the book because in the end, when all
that's left is the kingdom of God, none of that activity is
going to be happening. None.
Okay. Philippians 3.
Y'all doing. All right, let me just want this
down there. Hey, Wanda down.
Philippians chapter 3. How do I know you're a citizen?
Because the Bible says so Philippians 3:17 to 20, you're
doing great. Love you Brethren Brethren.
That's us the church Brethren. Join in following my example and
observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
So when you become a citizen, there is a pattern.
There is a culture as a behavior that is fitting with the citizen
of a kingdom will talk about that later for many walk of
whom, I MA who I often told you. And now tell you even weeping
that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ of Cross of
Christ. So they used to operate like a
citizen because they were a citizen but now their behavior
is actually an enemy to their own Nation.
I mean, it doesn't sit well with any nation and it should not sit
well with you. if someone in the United States that you're a
citizen of if you are, Betrayed your nation and sold our secrets
to another nation that was an enemy alike.
Throw that dude in jail or lady whatever.
Really, they were Spa, they were doing that undermining us this
whole time. And yet, this is what happens
here. Believers in the kingdom of God.
Now undermining their own Nation through their walk.
He said in verse 19, whose end is destruction, whose God is
their appetite and whose glory is in their shame, who set their
minds on Earthly things. But look at verse 24 hour.
What? For our, what is in heaven, from
which we also, for which also we eagerly wait for the Savior for
a savior. The Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, just cause your citizenship is in heaven, doesn't mean it's
confined to heaven. And because when I go to another
Nation, I'm not in the u.s. anymore, but my rights are not
confined to that Nation alone. Nor are its resources.
Because I've had some guys in here that are US citizens that
were in the service. They were to deploy to a foreign
territory and they had the resources of the Home Country,
show up with them. So, although their citizenship
was in the United States, when they were in those other
territories, the resources of that Nation, showed up the
commands, showed up the food, showed up, the provision, showed
up and the finance. They were taking care of the
health care went with them. Oh, the money went with them.
The resources, they need to do to accomplish the purpose of
that Nation went with them. The orders came from the actual
soil, their citizenship was in. And even though they weren't
present, they were able to relay the information in the Unseen
and they were able to extract that information and carry out
an assignment. So, Even though your citizenship
is in heaven, meaning your name's been logged into the
Lamb's Book of Life. You don't have to be there to
enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
Some other translations of verse 20 says that this way, the
Amplified classic says it this way but we are citizens of the
state Commonwealth Homeland, which is in heaven.
And from it we also for and from it also, we earnestly and
patiently, wait, the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the
Messiah as Savior, the Weymouth translation says we however are
free citizens of heaven and we are waiting for with longing
expectation of the coming from Heaven of a savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Bible.
Basic English says it this way for our country is in heaven
from where the Savior for whom we are waiting will come even
the Lord, Jesus Christ. A faithful version, AFV says it
this way. But for us, the Commonwealth of
God exists in the heavens from where we also, we are waiting
for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Easy read version says, that this way, but the government
that rules us is in heaven. We are waiting For our savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ to come from there.
The passion translation, says it this way but we are a colony of
Heaven on Earth as we cling tightly to our life Giver the
Lord Jesus Christ. So the kingdom citizen
principles, this citizenship in a kingdom is not a right, but a,
but a privilege citizens are chosen by the king and our
beneficiaries of the king's pleasure and promise.
What did John 16:15? 16 say you did not choose me,
But I chose you. God hand-picked you one day,
aren't you? Glad you came down the narrow
way. I said, aren't you glad you came
down the narrow way? So again, you don't you can't
say, well, we have a right to that.
No, you got to be picked for it. Now, here's the thing.
God wants to pick the world. And offers it to the world, but
there's only one way in. I said there's only one way in.
Through him. We'll close with this passage of
scripture, Ephesians chapter 2, verse 18 and 19 says for through
him. We both have our access in one
Spirit to the father so that you are no longer strangers and
Aliens but you are fellow what citizens with the Saints And our
of God's household. Here's the awesome thing about
the nation, where are our? We are of we're all related to
one another number one. Number two.
We all are of the god kind, which is a king kind.
We're royalty in the nation. We're of as Citizens, all of
God, citizens are Kings. Unlike in the United States
where you still to this day have opportunities to Excel or not.
And this particular type of society, okay?
Still today, it still is able to happen and some other nations.
You have to be tight with the government or you have nothing.
Right. And those are usually more
corrupted nature on the Earth. And God's kingdom.
He says all my citizens are Kings.
All of them because he's the king of kings.
So the minute you made, citizenship in God's kingdom,
you made kingship. Wow, what an awesome Nation we
are in. There's only one way, I said,
there's only one way. It is through Jesus.
It's through Jesus. I'm glad that I know Jesus.
Because the Bible says to be absent from the body is to be
present with the Lord. And our church, last week,
suffered a tragedy. We have one of our own go home
early. It's never easy during those
Tom's. The time were in right now, it's
not easy. Because we just don't want to be
separated seeing God's original intent.
He never intended for us to ever die. for he told Adam if you
don't eat the fruit to eat the fruit, you die, if you don't,
and if Adam had never eaten the fruit, then none of us ever
would have experienced death But unfortunately death is in the
Earth and there is an enemy out there that kills Steals and
destroys and there are situations that happen around
that. We just don't always get the
answer. But I know this is truth.
That God is never at fault. that God loves and that if there's
something I miss I know that God is good.
Always, I want to thank you as your pastor because when we got
news, we asked the question. Is it time to come home now?
And I heard the Spear of the Lord say My body is taken care
of this right now. You do your assignment here and
they're doing that assignment there because you're all
reflecting me. And I'm so thankful that you
reflected Jesus. we've got some things, we still have to go
through, but at the end of the day, one day.
When we see Steve again will never not see.
And that is very amazing. He knows more about the kingdom
than we do today. He does.
And I know this, I guarantee it, I have no doubt, I have no doubt
why. Cause scriptures already told me
Because if someone who didn't even know, God would ask Abraham
to send someone back to tell his brothers, to testify of
something different than a child of God is standing with a cloud
of witnesses right now. Say you do your assignment.
You finish your purpose, you get it done, don't leave a moment
early. Because we're coming back and I
guarantee he's probably saying it may be closer than you think,
not that, he knows because no one knows except the father.
But I bet there's a sense. I bet there's a sense.
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